24 HoursMargaret K. McElderry Books, 2000 - 200 pagina's It is seventeen-year-old Ellis's first night at home after graduating from prep school. By chance he bumps into Jackie Cattle, whom he remembers from grade school. Jackie is a couple of years older than Ellis, a drifter, disreputable, yet with an odd charm and a disarming wit. For the next twenty-four hours, Ellis enters an extraordinary world on the fringe of society that he never knew existed. Jackie introduces him to life at the Land-of-Smiles, a dilapidated motel where nightly a strange collection of local characters gather to drink and talk. Two attractive sisters, Ursa and Leona, the elder studying to be a lawyer, live there. Leona loves and takes care of a baby whose mother stops in only once in a while. Then the baby disappears, and Ellis is thrust into a wild, sometimes almost violent search for the child. This is a stunning novel that grips the reader as it sweeps to its conclusion. Rich characterization, breathtaking action, and an ultimately heartwarming solution distinguish this latest triumph of Margaret Mahy. |
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... close to the line of slow - moving traffic that one or two drivers tooted their horn in outrage , and a passenger lowered his window to shout angrily , " What do you think you're playing at , you bloody fool ? " But the glid- ing man ...
... the night before and remembered the way Leona's face had dis- solved with tenderness as she had swept the child up , cuddling her close . " Is Shelley Leona's baby ? " he asked tentatively . " She's a kid who was dumped on us . 85.
... my fault . I should have left you alone . Sorry ! " He looked at Ellis . " Where is he ? I mean , he must be somewhere close , because he knew when we came back from chasing Winston over the hills . " " Is he keeping her in his car ? ” 155.